French Tag

Do you speak 2 or more languages? Do you know how your brain looks like?
Interestingly, the brain of bilingual and multilingual people looks different than that of monolingual people.
Watch the video below to find out more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmOLN5zBLY&feature=share
How many languages do you speak? What are they?...

This is another illustration by cartoonist and illustrator James Chapman showing how to answer the phone in 10 languages.
I would add the Arabic:
رن رن
نعم
Know any way to answer the phone in another language? Share it in the comments below!...

What is the sound that you make when you're in pain?
Usually, in Lebanon, people use "Ay". When it's one's soul that aches, they tend to say "Akh" آخ (which is the classical Arabic sound for pain) if expressing their bitterness aloud.
I wish you never use...

Lebanon is witnessing its coldest weather this season so far, and I happen to have stumbled upon this photo which shows how countries around the world express themselves when it is pouring.
I do know the English and French ones. It's interesting that we don't have something similar...

I just found out about Upwork from someone I know and decided to browse through it a little bit. Upon checking the translation projects posted there, I realized that even the highest rate proposed by the job poster (aka employer) is just ridiculously low! When...

Last week I had an interview with Sean Hopwood, President of Day Translations Inc., about all things translation and languages.
We discussed Arabic, English, translation, interpretation and a little bit of everything.
Here it is below. Hope you enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3fFChE5dh4&feature=youtu.be
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I would add "Atchoum" in French.
Interestingly, the equivalent of "a sneeze" in Arabic is عطسة which reads as "At'ssa" and sounds like the act itself!
How do you sneeze in your language? Let us know in the comments section below!
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the AIIC (International Association of Conference Interpreters, aka "Association Internationale des Interprètes de Conférence" in French) released an amazingly accurate animated video explaining the importance of hiring professional conference interpreters and the positive effect it has on corporate performance.
The AIIC uploaded the video to their...

Almost every time I visit family members, they ask me to prepare crêpes for them, or ask me for the recipe. I actually got the latter from my mom, who got it from a top chef in Paris while on a getaway with my dad...

Tamyras invested in two years of hard work and finally succeeded in getting Larousse to add the word “Beyrouthin” to the French Dictionary. Several articles were published, and many other letters were written to the French Academy and Larousse, with the main effort being the...

I've been in this business for over a decade now, and believe me when I tell you, I haven't seen it all, but I have come to expect anything by now!
So a few days ago, one of my clients and good friends sent me an...

It was our last few hours in Fabulous Las Vegas, it was lunchtime, and we wanted our last meal to be unforgettable, but we had no reservations and no plans.
We were walking down the beautifully busy Strip and enjoying our last stroll in Sin City...

The cool graphic below shows how the act of yawning is said in 6 different languages: English, French, Thai, Korean, German and Japanese.
Surprisingly, after English and French, the Korean and the Japanese are the ones that made sense to me the most!
OOUAH in French is...

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